Date: 03/27/2002

Number: 1

Asclepias asperula, a native milkweed and growing wild in DeWitt County, has been "loaded" with eggs this week. First plant we checked had three stems (twelve, fourteen, and eighteen leaves) with nine eggs and one first instar. An informal count on one hundred stems (average of twelve leaves) yielded one hundred eggs, the one larva, only two doubles. We observed three females within minutes of each other searching and ovipositing. Netted two to photo, some to moderate fade but not transparent. Saw a dozen monarchs between three and five thirty either on a heading of northeast or low over the grasses and weeds.

Westhoff, TX

Latitude: 29.1 Longitude: -97.4

Observed by: Harlen E.
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